100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe

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100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe is a live art installation and guided performance that is part science project, part religious intervention. Infiltrating the Victorian Space Science Education Centre, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to navigate the improbable and sail to the frontiers of misunderstanding.

Meet at the 2010 Next Wave Festival Club where the journey to the next realm begins. A space shuttle will ferry you to and from state-of-the-art research facilities in a galaxy not too far away. Give yourself over to some old fashioned ecstatic transcendentalism. Or, remain safely cradled in the arms of logic and objectivity. Upon your return to the Festival Club, we recommend a stiff drink and collective debrief on what on Earth just happened.

Like molecules of water, we humans move in formation. Pack animals, we are reared to belong, facsimiles of facsimiles of inherited chromosomes. We are born into a world of Us and Them, believers and non-believers, the initiated and the ignorant. Are we recycled atoms or divine creations? Is our language one of reason or tongues? How do we make sense of our short time on earth?

About the artist/s:

“Tape Projects (TAPR)”http://tapeprojects.org is a collective of artists who create, curate and collaborate across time, space and artforms. Formed in 2006 in Melbourne, TAPR has birthed installations, performances, talks, screenings and publications as well as acted as midwife for the creative projects of a multitude of local, interstate and international peers. TAPR exhibitions and curated works have been included in Electrofringe, Transmediale (Berlin), Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan) and Sydney Festival.

Jessie Scott
Beyond wondering what happened to feminism, Jessie Scott is a founding member of Tape Projects, producing and collaborating on their events and publications, since 2007. She completed an Australia Council funded internship with Wholphin in San Francisco in 2009 and hopes one day to “really make a go of it”.

Eugenia Lim
Eugenia Lim works across video, photography, performance and installation. Her work explores themes of identity, race and cultural stereotype through performances on camera. She is a founding and ongoing member of Tape Projects. eugenialim.com

Zoe Scoglio
Zoe is a media artist who creates video and sound for public, performance based and site-specific outcomes. Current work involves spontaneous collaborations and explorations into transformation and ritual. As well as making solo and commissioned works, Zoe is as a collaborator and curator with Melbourne based artist-run-initiative, Tape Projects and The Gaylord Sisters.

Lee Anantawat
Lee Anantawat is an animator/illustrator from Bangkok, who is currently living in Melbourne. She likes to do animation with old school techniques, jamming and making noises with her band ‘The Gaylord Sisters’. At the moment, she loves to explore her drawing skills and keep introducing her imaginary friends to this world. Her works are very lively colorful, dreamy and most of the time happy.

Tanja Milbourne
Tanja Milbourne is a photographer and media artist focused on documentation and perception in architecture and urban landscape. Her installations regularly take the existing site as the subject for inquiry, engaging with the structure and context of the exhibition space, often extending to include the viewer, inviting questions about the surrounding environment and the act of seeing.

Michael Prior
Michael Prior is a media artist interested in creating interactive installation works that attempt to distort time perception via sound and architecture. He also produces recordings and performance work with Chronox as well as soundtrack work for film and TV.